Pradeep Kumar Jayaraman is a Senior Research Scientist with the Simulation, Optimization and Systems group at Autodesk Research, Toronto, Canada. His current research interests lie at the intersection of discrete geometry processing, numerical optimization and machine learning applied to 3D representations.Prior to joining Autodesk Research in 2019, Pradeep was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Multimedia and Interactive Computing Lab, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, also from Nanyang Technological University in 2017, and B.Tech. in Information Technology from Anna University, India, in 2009. His hobbies include action-RPG games, hiking, and calisthenics.